Spreader.



A. B. COMRIB.

SPREADER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 23, 1912.

1,040,888. Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

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ALONZO B. COMRIE, OF PENN YAIN', NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

A Application filed January 23, 1912. Serial No. 672,813.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ALoNzo B. COMRIE,

a citizen of the United States ofnm'erica, resldlng at Penn Ian, 1n the county of iates and Stateof- New lork, have 1n'- vented new andnsefut Improvements in spreading rock, gravel or the like upon the surfaces of roads In carrying, out the-present invention, it is my purpose to provide a vehicle of this type whereinv the .ll'littGlY-lttlmay be discharged from the. vehicle and distributed over' the surface of the road bed in an even and uniform mannen.

Furthermore, I aim to provide a vehicle of this type-which will include a wheeled hopper having an outlet opening, and a feed or distributing, roller below" the opening in the hopper to facilitate the discharge of material from the hopper to-th'e surface of the road, the hopper carrying an apron below the discharge opening therein and partially inclosingsaiih roller so that the material may be discharged from the hopper at right angles therctoand in a direction rearwardly of thecourse of travel of the maohine thus eilectingan even and uniform distribution of the material from the hopper to the Surface .of .the road bed.

The invention has for a still further object, the provision of a vehicle of this type wherein the discharge of the material from the hopper, may be controlled at the will of an operator. 1

With the above and other, objects in view which will appear as the description progresses, the invention consists in the. construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter set forth in and falling within the scope of the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and in which has been illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention; Figure 1 is a side elevation of a spreader constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a detail of the invention.

Similar reference characters designate like parts throughout the several views.

lclcrring to'thc accompanying drawing in detail, the vehiclcin the present instance" includes a hopper body 1 mounted upon 'whcelcd axles land. designed to traverse 'a'roadway to apply a surface coating thereto. It IS conceivable, however, that the vel1icle ma' v be used for other purposes where spreading of material is desired. The hopper 1 consists of the side boards 3 and 4 and the inclined endboards 5 and G which latter terminate at their lower-ends adjathe discharge opening 7 of the hopper.

Hinged to the end'board 6 ofthe hopper adjacent the discharge opening 7 thereof is an apron 13 extending the full width of the body and connected to. the opposing side boards 3 and 1 of such body through the medium of spring-held r0ds13. This apron i 1; is of a curved outline-and substantially or partially incloses the feed roller 11, the

apron 13 and extensions 8 providing a distributingopening 1st at therearof the'roller 11 and at right angles to the flow of material from the hopper.

' Should the material becomecongested between the apron and the feed roller, incident to relatively large lumps of such material leaving the hopper, the apron 13 will give owing to the pivotal connection of the same with the end board 6 and the spring held rods 13? between the free edge ofthe apron and the end board5.

To impart movement to the roller 11 within the apron 13 and to render the roller operative and inoperative when desired, a sprocket wheel 15 is fixed'to one of the rear walls of the vehicle and rotatable therewith and over this wheel is trained a chain 16 embracing a sprocket wheel 17 carried by a clutch member 18 loosely mounted upon the shaft 10, suitable means being provided to prevent lateral displacement of the clutch member 18. Splined to the shaft 10 is another clutch member 19 adapted to engage the clutch member 18 when it is desired to impart movement to the feed roller,fthe

' movement of the clutch member 19 being controlled through the medium of a link 20 pivoted intermediate its ends to one of the side boards of the body and connected at its free end with an operating lever 21 arranged adjacent the seat 23 upon the vehicle back. Thus, itwill be seen that, the clutch member 19 may be engaged with and disengaged from the clutch member 18- by manipulating the lever 22. This structure may be varied however and I desire to have it understood that I do not limit myself to any specific form of mechanism for transmitting motion to the roller 11 or for controlling the transmission of such motion thereto.

In order to control the feeding of the material from thehopper l'to the apron 13 under the action of the roller 11, I have provided a gate 24: slidably mountedupon rollv ers 25' journaled in the'side boards of the body adjacent the under surface of the end board 6. establish and. cut off communication between the outlet opening 7 of the hopper and the apron 13, and to operate the: gate for this purpose, a rod 26 is connected to one end of the gate 24 and has its opposite end con nected to an operating lever 27 through the medium ofa pin and slot connection, the operating lever being pivoted to one of the side boards of the frame and adjacent the seat 23 within convenient reach of an operator upon such seat. .From this 1t Wlll be seen that the movement of the roller 11 and the feeding of the material from the hopper 1 is at all times under the control of the op-' erator owing to the posltions' of the levers 22 and 27 which control the said roller andv gate respectively.

In'use,,the hopper 1 is filled "with any suitable material, such as rock or the like,

and the clutch members 18 and 19 brought into engagement to impartino'veinent to the roller 11 in the movement of the vehicle.

Simultaneous with the shifting of the clutch members, the gate 24; is operated to establish communication between the hopper and the apron 13, whereby the material from the hopper is forced into the apron 13 and rearwardly thereof and out of the discharge This gate as shown is designed to I claim and desire to secure by Lettersopening 14 formed by theextensions 8 and apron 13. From this construction it will be [seen that thematerial is: discharged in a direction at right angles to the. hopper and rearwardly of the course of travel of the vehicle whereby a uniform and even disthe method of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled inthe art to which the invention app ert-ains, and while I have describedthe principle of operation of the invention, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative, and that such changes may be made when desired as are within the scope of the claim appended hereto. 1

Having thus described my invention, what Patent is:

wheeledhopper including side boards and inclined end boards and provided with an outlet opening, boards below the outlet opening, a feed roller journaled in said extensions below the, opening in said hopper,'means for operating said roller, an apron hingedly connected to said hopper below the opening-therein and partially inclosing said roller, saidapron and extensions forming a'disch'argeopening at right angles to the outlet opening of the hopper, springnheld rods connecting the free edge of said apron to said hopper wherebythe apron maybe moved relatively to the hopper andfeed roller, and a gate carried by one of said inclined end boards, and'slidable to establish and-cut off communication betweensaid hopper and apron.

In testimony whereof I aflix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

ALONZO 'GOMRIE.

v Witnesses: 1

H. G. OvENsIImn, J. JFGARDNER.

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